The Speeches

And……..Action!

Producers need their IP Experts before every take.

Workshop : Final Destinations: U.S., via Madrid, Geneva

  • Lynne Beresford,

Commissioner for Trademarks – United States Patent and Trademark Office

  • Marie-Paule Rizo,

Head, Legal and Inter-Office Support Unit, WIPO

AGM

    • President’s Report

Action

Welcome by

  • Isabelle Leroux, Chair of the Organizing Committee, Bird & Bird, FR
  • Benoît Battistelli, Director General, l’Institut national de la propriété industrielle (INPI), FR
  • Mireia Curell, President of ECTA, IP Attorney, Curell Suňol, ES

The individuals behind the production process

Chair:

Mireia Curell, President of ECTA, IP Attorney, Curell Suňol, ES

The session will take the format of an interview:

Interviewers:

  • Jean-Claude Combaldieu, Past-President of OHIM, ECTA Member of Honour, FR
  • Richard Gilbey, Lawyer, Gilbey de Haas, FR
  • Keith Hodkinson, IP Attorney, Marks & Clerk, UK

Interviewees:

The script writer: The Commission

  • Overview of the legislative process at the Commission, the Council and the Parliament
  • Erik Nooteboom, European Commission - Head of the Industrial Property Unit, BE

The actor: WIPO

  • Overview of WIPO’s work on Trade Marks and Designs.
  • Ernesto Rubio, Assistant Director General of WIPO, CH

The distributor: OHIM

  • What does the future hold? Further improvements to the CTM and RCD systems.
  • Wubbo de Boer, President of OHIM, ES

The production

Chair:

Leopold von Gerlach, Chairman of the ECTA Design Committee, Lawyer, Lovells, DE

  • Design Protection throughout Europe

Erling Borcher, Lawyer, Kromann Reumert, DK

  • Design Protection in the luxury goods industry:

Moradian Lesley, Vice-President and Senior Trademark Counsel, The Estee Lauder Companies Inc, USA

  • Design Protection – The US perspective:

Louis Ederer, Lawyer, Arnold and Porter LLP, US

  • Summary and Comment Leopold von Gerlach, Chairman of the ECTA Design Committee, Lawyer, Lovells, DE
  • Domain names, corporate, commercial names: a comparative study

Richard Wessman, Professor, Stockholm University, (SE)

Chair:

Martín Michaus, President of ASIPI, Lawyer, Basham, Ringe y Correa, MX

Comparative advertising

Joanna Piotrowska, Nestlē Regional IP Advisor, PL

Product placement

Irene Braam, Director Government Affairs, Bertelsmann AG, BE

Counterfeiting

Chair:

Fabio Angelini, Lawyer, Intel, IT

Source – China?

Joe Simone, Lawyer and Partner of the Hong Kong Baker & MacKenzie, HK

Points of entry - customs: The Montex decision and its implications

Erwan Guilmin, Head of Legal and Contentious Department, French Customs Authorities, FR

The Contentious strategies

Chair:

Laurence Julien-Raes, President of APRAM, IP Attorney, Santarelli, FR

Appeals against decisions of the CFI - recent Case Law of the ECJ

Alexander von Mühlendahl, Lawyer, Bardehle, Pagenberg, Dost, Altenburg, Geissler, Munich, DE

Links to full decisions as cited, provided by darts-ip

European Case Law: Unfair Competition, Parasitic Trading, Parody

Giuseppe Bertoli, Réferendaire at the Court of First Instance of the European Communities, LU

Chair:

Simon Reeves, ECTA Vice-President, AstraZeneca, UK

Creation of a personal brand

  • Maurice Watkins, Senior Partner of Brabners Chaffe Street LLP, Solicitors, and Director of Manchester United Football Club Limited, UK